[Based on "Riot in Cell Block Number 9" by Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller]
 
Starting out with Berkeley Free Speech
 And later on at People's Park
 The winds of change fanned into flames
 Student demonstrations spark
 Down to Isla Vista where police felt so harassed
 They called the special riot squad of the L. A. County Sheriff
 
Well there's a riot going on
 There's a riot going on
 There's a riot going on
 Student demonstration time
 
The violence spread down South to where Jackson State brothers
 Learned not to say nasty things about Southern policemen's mothers
 Nothing much was said about it and really next to nothing done
 The pen is mightier than the sword, but no match for a gun
 
Well there's a riot going on
 There's a riot going on
 Well there's a riot going on
 'Cause it's student demonstration time
 
America was stunned on May 4, 1970
 When rally turned to riot up at Kent State University
 They said the students scared the Guard
 Though the troops were battle dressed
 Four martyrs earned a new degree
 The Bachelor of Bullets
 I know we're all fed up with useless wars and racial strife
 But next time there's a riot, well, you best stay out of sight
 
Well there's a riot going on
 There's a riot going on
 Well there's a riot going on
 Student demonstration time
 
Stay away when there's a riot going on
 Student demonstration
 Stay away when there's a riot going on
 Student demonstration
 Stay away when there's a riot going on
 Student demonstration
 Stay away when there's a riot going on
 It's student demonstration
 Stay away when there's a riot going on
 Student demonstration
 Stay away when there's a riot going on
 Student demonstration
 Stay away when there's a riot going on
 It's student demonstration
 Stay away when there's a riot going on
 Student demonstration